Israeli police have fired stun grenades to disperse Palestinian worshippers who threw rocks at them after Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third holiest site, police say. Dozens of officers entered the politically sensitive area in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday to break up a demonstration of hundreds of protesters, Israeli police spokesman […]

Bruno Fernandes de Souza, a former goalkeeper of Brazilian club Flamengo, headed to court in 2010. On Wednesday, the former star denied ordering a hit on his onetime fling, Eliza Samudio, but admitted to hearing she’d been killed after she disappeared in June 2010. A Brazilian soccer star on trial for the ghastly murder and […]

Venezuelans have begun seven days of national mourning after the announcement that their president, Hugo Chavez, died aged 58 after a long battle against cancer. The country’s vice-president, Nicolas Maduro – tipped as a likely successor – broke the news on Tuesday night, prompting a wave of grief in the nation’s streets. Chavez’s body will be escorted from the Caracas […]

Israel has deported at least 1,000 Sudanese on ‘voluntary leave,’ Haaretz reported. The UN Refugee agency said it was not informed of the move, and that the deportees were forced to return to Sudan where visiting or living in Israel is a crime. The repatriation was reportedly carried out secretly over the last few months […]